Data SA
GovernmentAUdata.sa.gov.au
South Australia's open data directory, a CKAN catalogue of datasets from South Australian government agencies, with a DataStore for tabular resources.
Capabilities (17)
GET /v1/data/datasagovau/dataset1 creditFull metadata for one dataset: title, notes, licence, organization, tags, extras and the complete resource list with download URLs and formats.
GET /v1/data/datasagovau/dataset-names1 creditFlat JSON array of every dataset slug on the portal, in alphabetical order.
GET /v1/data/datasagovau/datasets1 creditSolr-backed search over every dataset published on Data SA; returns a page of 20 full dataset records plus the total match count and facets.
GET /v1/data/datasagovau/dataset-suggest1 creditLightweight typeahead: matching datasets as {name, title, match_field} objects, no resources or descriptions.
GET /v1/data/datasagovau/group1 creditMetadata for one thematic group: title, description, image and dataset count.
GET /v1/data/datasagovau/group-datasets1 creditA page of up to 20 full dataset records belonging to one thematic group, with the group's total count.
GET /v1/data/datasagovau/groups1 creditEvery thematic group (subject category) on the portal with its name, display title, description and dataset count.
GET /v1/data/datasagovau/licenses1 creditEvery licence the portal offers publishers, as {id, title, url, od_conformance, osd_conformance} objects.
GET /v1/data/datasagovau/organization1 creditMetadata for one publishing organization: title, description, contact extras, dataset count and (optionally) its datasets.
GET /v1/data/datasagovau/organization-datasets1 creditA page of up to 20 full dataset records published by one organization, with the total count for that publisher.
GET /v1/data/datasagovau/organizations1 creditEvery publishing organization on the portal with its name, display title, description, image and dataset count.
GET /v1/data/datasagovau/resource1 creditMetadata for one file or API endpoint attached to a dataset: download URL, format, size, description and datastore flag.
GET /v1/data/datasagovau/resource-rows1 creditUp to 100 parsed rows of a tabular resource straight from CKAN's DataStore, with the column schema and total row count — no file download or CSV parsing.
GET /v1/data/datasagovau/resource-search1 creditSearches resource metadata (not datasets) across the whole portal and returns up to 50 matching resource records with their download URLs.
GET /v1/data/datasagovau/site-status1 creditThe portal's CKAN version, site title, locale and the list of installed CKAN extensions.
GET /v1/data/datasagovau/tag1 creditThe id, name and vocabulary of one tag, and optionally every dataset carrying it.
GET /v1/data/datasagovau/tags1 creditFlat JSON array of every free tag used on the portal.
Licence
The footer of data.sa.gov.au states: "This Government of South Australia website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License." The portal also publishes a separate Attribution page asking users to attribute the source agency. CC BY 4.0 permits commercial use and redistribution with attribution; individual dataset records may carry their own licence.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Attribution
Display this wherever you show the data. It arrives on every response as provenance.attribution_text.
Source: Data SA (Government of South Australia), licensed under CC BY 4.0. Attribute the Government of South Australia and the publishing agency named on each dataset.
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